“Israel warns that the ‘right to return’ would destroy the country’s identity as the ethnic-national homeland for the Jewish people”

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Biden ditches Trump’s pro-Israel stance on Palestinian ‘right to return’
by Tyler O’Neil
November 11, 2021

The Biden administration abstained from a United Nations General Assembly resolution affirming Palestinian refugees’ right to return to Israel, a move that Israel claims would destroy the country’s identity as the ethnic-national homeland for the Jewish people. The Trump administration had voted against the resolution, and a group of Orthodox Jewish rabbis condemned the Biden administration for reversing this stance. U.S Deputy Ambassador Richard Mills framed the abstention as a return to a former U.S. position that prevailed under Barack Obama. READ MORE

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